Iron County Record | 1936-04-23 | Page 5 | Two Meanings to Word Alcohol, Writer Says

Two Topo Meanings Meaning to W Word rd 1 Alcohol Writer Says Say The Th word alcohol has bas two mean mean- raga ings It U ma may refer to the volatile I ethereal liquid that is the etsen essen Ual constituent of certain beverages From the organic chemists chemist's viewpoint view point says Thomas Thomaa M. M 1 Beck Deck In the Chicago Tribune It refers to toa toa toa a whole class riAlS of compounds which consist of ot a string of oC carbon atoms attached to which are a number of hydrogen atoms and In addition an ao Oil oxygen and hydrogen group The simplest of ot these alcohols Is la that containing one carbon atom known as 88 methyl or wool alcohol That containing two carb carbon o atoms Is I. ethyl or drinking alcohol A Acorn commonly com known knowD one one still higher inthe In Inthe Inthe the series Is amyl alcohol or fusel oil which Is le used as 88 a solvent The lower of oC the alcohols are volatile pungent liquids that are soluble In to water Higher ones are oils and till still higher ones are waxy solids Until recently these last have havo been beeD laboratory curiosities On the other hand fatty talty acids consisting of sim liar itar long loog chains of carbon atoms but with a group Instead of an Oil OH at the end are quite quito common com corn mon won as the chief components of all animal or vegetable fats Cats During the thelast thelast last Mat few years ears there has been developed developed devel duel In Germany a commercial method of ot changing the COOil into a CHOH enOIl group thereby convertIng convert convert- Ing the fatty acl acid Into a s solid alco alco- hol bol These alcohols by themselves ma may be used for tor many of ot the purposes that other waxes are Although they ther are Insoluble they possess a greater affinity or lor water because ot of their alcoholic nature than do most other waxes For Par this reason they ther are aro readily emulsified with water